Sentence examples for honourable function from inspiring English sources

Might it not be as well, it is being asked, to recognise that the Colonial Office's present and most honourable function is to work itself out of a job; and to transfer responsibility for the emergent, and even pre-emergent, Commonwealth countries to the Commonwealth Relations Office?The timetable, after all, is getting filled in.

"But everything I did was for an honourable purpose".

Honour systems only work with honourable people.

To Kill a King is a decent and honourable film that, unfashionably in contemporary cinema, shows some interest in ideas and how they function in public life.

Honourable Friends?

"They are honourable people.

It is an honourable aim.

"For you, honourable president, are not an honourable man.

They view themselves as honourable.

Sometimes honourable, sometimes not.

The Honourable Mao Zeming.